Family Life Society
The society's focus is on promoting understanding and respect for family and family life. It also promotes respect for human life in all its phases, according to Church teachings. It helps individuals, couples and families through a variety of programmes and activities.
It is active in pro-life, parenting and school family education, runs hotline and counselling for pregnant girls and women and youths in crisis. Established programmes include: Choice, Catholic Engaged Encounter, Marriage Preparation, Natural Family Planning, Couples for Christ, Retrouvaille, Beginning Experience and the Couple Empowerment Programme.
Canossaville Children's Home
The Canossian Sisters care for young children and adolescents who are at risk, who lack parental care or family support. The home has room for up to 30 children, and they stay from six months to several years. The sisters also run a Student Care Centre for children from single-parent poor families and others.
Morning Star Community Services
This family-centred group formed in 1999 aims to strengthen and enrich family life through education programmes, workshops and camps for parents and children. It runs school-based social work programmes, a prison service to help inmates and their families, and various other counselling, outreach and support services.
Marine Parade Family Service Centre
It runs a comprehensive range of social services helping individuals to realise their own potential; empower families to increase their functionality; and nurturing the community to strengthen its bonds. It serves the residents in the districts of Marine Parade, Joo Chiat, Geylang Serai and Mountbatten. It also runs other programmes and projects as follows:
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Cyber-Counselling for the Youth – provide young people who are not yet ready for, or have no access to face-to-face counselling with an alternative means of communicating with counsellors and also enhances teenagers' abilities in handling relationships at home and in schools. |
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Good Life at South East – promotes productive ageing among the mobile and healthy elderly through activities to educate them on how to look after their holistic psychological and physical wellness as well as inter-generational and racial community participation programmes. |
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